These longevity quotes will inspire you. Longevity, a long duration of individual life or long continuance.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging longevity quotes, longevity sayings, and longevity proverbs.
Best Longevity Quotes
- “The quality, not the longevity, of one’s life is what is important.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “If you ask what is the single most important key to longevity, I would have to say it is avoiding worry, stress and tension. And if you didn’t ask me, I’d still have to say it.” ~ George Burns
- “In ancient China, the Taoists taught that a constant inner smile, a smile to oneself, insured health, happiness and longevity. Why? Smiling to yourself is like basking in love: you become your own best friend. Living with an inner smile is to live in harmony with yourself.” ~ Mantak Chia , Longevity quotes friendship
- “The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart.” ~ Dalai Lama
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“To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.” ~ Aries Spears
- “In a moving world readaptation is the price of longevity.” ~ George Santayana
- “The secret of longevity… Is to keep breathing!” ~ Sophie Tucker
- “A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried.” ~ Dorothea Kent
- “Gratitude is a mindful awareness of the benefits of life. It’s the greatest of virtues. Studies have linked the emotion with a variety of positive effects. Grateful people tend to be more empathetic and forgiving of others. People who keep a gratitude journal are more likely to have a positive outlook on life. Grateful individuals demonstrate less envy, materialism, and self-centeredness. Gratitude improves self-esteem and enhances relationships, quality of sleep, and longevity.” ~ Max Lucado , Longevity quotes relationship
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“The longevity of every relationship is decided by the willingness to forgive” ~ Mike Murdock
- “Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.” ~ John Evelyn
- “Longevity conquers scandal every time.” ~ Shelby Foote
- “Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the primary cell of the nervous system, do not multiply (for the most part) after we are born. That means that the majority of the neurons in your brain today are as old as you are. This longevity of the neurons partially accounts for why we feel pretty much the same on the inside at the age of 10 as we do at age 30 or 77.” ~ Jill Bolte Taylor
- “The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.” ~ Prince
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“Longevity is the key to success.” ~ Ed Seykota
- “Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
- “There is no such thing as great work without longevity.” ~ Johnny Hunt
- “Longevity is having a chronic disease – and taking care of it.” ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- “THE 2,000-YEAR-OLD MAN’S SECRETS OF LONGEVITY 1. Don’t run for a bus – there’ll always be another. 2. Never, ever touch fried food. 3. Stay out of a Ferrari or any other small Italian car. 4. Eat fruit – a nectarine – even a rotten plum is good.” ~ Mel Brooks
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“There’s no longevity, living off of negativity.” ~ Big Pun
- “Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity.” ~ Robert D. Putnam
- “I think it’s important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don’t want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.” ~ Aaliyah
- “Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.” ~ Doug Larson
- “Learn your craft well. Take care of your own business. Success (popularity) is fleeting for most, but longevity lies in a quality craft with integrity. Oh, and don’t take yourself too seriously.” ~ Oleta Adams
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“Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.” ~ Betty Comden
- “We can change the expression of more than 70 percent of the genes that have a direct bearing on our health and longevity.” ~ David Perlmutter
- “You go for the quality of the performance, not the longevity of it.” ~ Don King
- “If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.” ~ Sun Tzu
- “How do you live a long life? “Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.”” ~ Harry S. Truman
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“I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I’m trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.” ~ Orlando Bloom
- “Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day’s work an achievement for eternity.” ~ Helen Hayes
- “Our culture’s zeal for longevity reveals our incredible collective fear of death.” ~ Ram Dass
- “When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.” ~ Bob Newhart
- “Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.” ~ Laozi
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“I’m most proud of the longevity of my marriage, my kids, and my grandchildren. If you don’t have that, you really don’t have very much.” ~ Bob Newhart
- “A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.” ~ Edna Ferber
- “I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It’s crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.” ~ Cat Cora
- “Longevity in my family’s been pretty good. And my grandparents were pretty spry at their age, so I figured I’d probably stay skinny and fairly agile. I used to do old men all the time in sketches. And there used to be an organization called the Gray Panthers. And they would send me, oh, terrible letters about making fun of old people. And I would just always say, “I’m playing the old person I intend to become!”” ~ Dick Van Dyke
- “The more emotional investment we put into the people around us, the more quality of life and longevity surrounds us.” ~ Lee Johnson
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“Image is the most important thing about someone’s career and longevity.” ~ Jessica Simpson
- “I think one of the most difficult challenges in show business is the challenge of longevity and to constantly realize and reveal what’s already been there – like doing stage and singing and dancing in New York. I haven’t been that far out of my comfort zone in a while.” ~ Blair Underwood , Business longevity quotes
- “I look to longevity. I just consider myself an actress and getting good roles. If being a ‘superstar’ gets me good roles, then that’s a positive thing. But my goal isn’t just to be a superstar. It’s to act for a long time.” ~ Penelope Ann Miller
- “There’s not much longevity in music today. It’s so easy to go in, put some pretentious lyrics on, with people saying the same thing over and over and over.” ~ Patti LaBelle
- “We want everything in a hurry because our primary aim must be survival in the short term. Long term thinking has seemed like a luxury in human history because lives were shorter, but with our increased longevity we have to figure out what to DO with all our time, and to pace ourselves to achieve things that we want. Hobbes might have been right when he originally wrote that life is ‘nasty, poor, brutish and short’, but today we are AWASH with time.” ~ Tom Butler-Bowdon
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“The absence of high-quality friendships is bad for your health, spirits, productivity, and longevity.” ~ Tom Rath
- “If that god is described as being all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, I don’t see evidence for it anywhere in the world. So I remain unconvinced. If that god is all-powerful and all-good, I don’t see that when a tsunami kills a quarter-million or an earthquake kills a quarter-million people. I’d like to think of good as something in the interest of your health or longevity.” ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “I think longevity is more important than trying to make people realize you’re around every second.” ~ Don McLean
- “Starting now, you’re just starting to see a glimmer of what the idea of West will mean. So right now, at this age and with this visibility and with the skill sets that Kim is now giving me, I think I have a good chance of success in building something that has longevity, high integrity, high success rate, and is very fulfilling, not only for me creatively but also in adding fulfillment to people’s lives. Adding ease. Adding wonder. Adding magic.” ~ Kanye West
- “Uncommon extension of the fear of death.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
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“The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.” ~ Lin Yutang
- “The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality: witnessing. This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. That is what is called ecstasy.” ~ Rajneesh
- “It all boils down to the music. That’s what causes longevity.” ~ Britney Spears
- “The man who has lived the longest is not he who has spent the greatest number of years, but he who has had the greatest sensibility of life.” ~ Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
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“Every single person is a beautiful human being, and we’re lucky. That’s what gives you longevity. You have to love the people that you work with.” ~ Katee Sackhoff
- “The secret of my success is longevity.” ~ Charles Hartshorne
- “Atheists have an excellent longevity record because we have no place to go after we die, so we take good care of ourselves and our world while we are here.” ~ Madalyn Murray O’Hair
- “Somebody said to me this morning, ‘To what do you attribute your longevity?’ I don’t know. I mean, I couldn’t have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I’ve lived the last 30 years!” ~ Ozzy Osbourne
- “From my perspective, it appears that a great thrust of research on health and longevity is pointing towards improving our immune system – that within an empowered immune system are the health solutions and longevity answers we’re looking for.” ~ David Wolfe
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“Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity.” ~ George Thorogood
- “There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.” ~ Raymond Moody
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“Longevity is a big part of credibility.” ~ Jason Calacanis
- “And me, myself personally, in order for there to be any kind of longevity there’s gotta be some history.” ~ Edwin Starr
- “It does not, however, seem impossible that by an attention to breed, a certain degree of improvement, similar to that among animals, might take place among men. Whether intellect could be communicated may be a matter of doubt: but size, strength, beauty, complexion, and perhaps even longevity are in a degree transmissible… As the human race could not be improved in this way, without condemning all the bad specimens to celibacy, it is not probable, that an attention to breed should ever become general.” ~ Thomas Malthus
